Our gardeners may grow your produce.

At Mesa Verde Gardens, they grow their own!

Mesa Verde Gardens works alongside residents of Santa Cruz County to improve food security and nutrition. We co-create edible community gardens where families can grow pesticide-free fresh fruits and vegetables that they choose for their own tables. Our garden members are primarily low-income Latino families living in the fertile Pajaro Valley. While 80% of members have at least one farmworker in the household, Mesa Verde Gardens supports all people to achieve equal access to fresh organic produce they grow themselves. We know that doing so promotes good health and lowers household food costs while creating vibrant, fertile spaces that make the community a more beautiful and satisfying place to live.

Mesa Verde Gardens’ vision is to spread this work slowly and steadily throughout Santa Cruz County, one neighborhood at a time, until everyone who wants to grow food for themselves can.